Talk & Book signing: Photo Historian and Author Maureen Taylor, "Picturing Rhode Island: Images from Everyday Life, 1850-2006"
History / Heritage - Lecture/Discussion
Sunday, November 11, 2007
2:00 PM-3:30 PM
Providence Public Library, Central
Barnard Room, 3rd floor
150 Empire Street
Providence, RI 02903
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For residents of Rhode Island and those who love the Ocean State, "Picturing Rhode Island" recaptures lost time and vanished ways of life. A former archivist and picture editor for the Rhode Island Historical Society, Taylor discovered 250 period photographs to the present. Taylor also utilized Providence Public Library's extensive historical Rhode Island Image Collection in compiling "Picturing Rhode Island." Maureen Taylor is our author of the month.
In conjunction with Taylor's visit, PPL Rhode Island Collection librarian Betty Fitzgerald will briefly discuss the Library's extensive Rhode Island Image Collection, some items of which will be exhibited during November.
About the author and the book
A nationally known expert on history, genealogy, and photography, Maureen Taylor has been a consultant to the Rhode Island Black Heritage Society. In addition to "Uncovering Your Ancestry Through Family Photographs," she has also authored "Scrapbooking Your Family History," "Preserving Your Family Photographs," and "Through the Eyes of Your Ancestors," a children's book. Taylor recently appeared on the "Hallmark Channel" about her antique photo work.
At Family Tree magazine, Taylor is the "Photo Detective" and a contributing editor. She is on the editorial board of Legacy magazine. Taylor lives in Westwood, Massachusetts, with her husband and two children. She lectures widely on family history and photography.
Nearly 250 period photographs of Rhode Island, some pre-Civil War, are printed in rich duotones in this sumptuous volume. Photo historian Maureen Taylor has chosen from thousands of images to show us how the state has evolved over the past century and a half. The images are organized in eight thematic sections: 1. The March of Progress, 2. Our Architectural Heritage, 3. Getting Around, 4. On the Bay, 5. Out on the Town, 6. Industrial and Commercial Genius, 7. Earning a Living, 8. Building Rhode Island Landscapes run the gamut from crowded Providence streets to hardscrabble farms on Block Island.
The presence of everyday people in most of these images-many of them gazing directly into the camera lens-provokes the imagination: Who were they? How did they live? Were their lives so very different from our own? Through insightful analysis, Taylor illuminates the images, reading a sign in a corner, showing how a city square evolved over decades, pointing out a sole child in a line-up of war veterans and speculating on why he was there. This is a book to dwell on and dream over. It brings historic Rhode Island back to us as few books do or could.
Cost: free
Suggested Audiences:
Adult
Website: http://www.booksite.com/texis/scripts/bookletter/showlist.html?sid=6489&list=CNL14
E-mail:
jchoiniere@provlib.org
Last Modified: October 26, 2007 at 11:30 AM
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Talk & Book signing: Photo Historian and Author Maureen Taylor, "Picturing Rhode Island: Images from Everyday Life, 1850-2006"
History / Heritage - Lecture/Discussion
Sunday, November 11, 2007
2:00 PM-3:30 PM
Providence Public Library, Central
Barnard Room, 3rd floor
150 Empire Street
Providence, RI 02903
Google Maps - MapQuest
For residents of Rhode Island and those who love the Ocean State, "Picturing Rhode Island" recaptures lost time and vanished ways of life. A former archivist and picture editor for the Rhode Island Historical Society, Taylor discovered 250 period photographs to the present. Taylor also utilized Providence Public Library's extensive historical Rhode Island Image Collection in compiling "Picturing Rhode Island." Maureen Taylor is our author of the month.
In conjunction with Taylor's visit, PPL Rhode Island Collection librarian Betty Fitzgerald will briefly discuss the Library's extensive Rhode Island Image Collection, some items of which will be exhibited during November.
About the author and the book
A nationally known expert on history, genealogy, and photography, Maureen Taylor has been a consultant to the Rhode Island Black Heritage Society. In addition to "Uncovering Your Ancestry Through Family Photographs," she has also authored "Scrapbooking Your Family History," "Preserving Your Family Photographs," and "Through the Eyes of Your Ancestors," a children's book. Taylor recently appeared on the "Hallmark Channel" about her antique photo work.
At Family Tree magazine, Taylor is the "Photo Detective" and a contributing editor. She is on the editorial board of Legacy magazine. Taylor lives in Westwood, Massachusetts, with her husband and two children. She lectures widely on family history and photography.
Nearly 250 period photographs of Rhode Island, some pre-Civil War, are printed in rich duotones in this sumptuous volume. Photo historian Maureen Taylor has chosen from thousands of images to show us how the state has evolved over the past century and a half. The images are organized in eight thematic sections: 1. The March of Progress, 2. Our Architectural Heritage, 3. Getting Around, 4. On the Bay, 5. Out on the Town, 6. Industrial and Commercial Genius, 7. Earning a Living, 8. Building Rhode Island Landscapes run the gamut from crowded Providence streets to hardscrabble farms on Block Island.
The presence of everyday people in most of these images-many of them gazing directly into the camera lens-provokes the imagination: Who were they? How did they live? Were their lives so very different from our own? Through insightful analysis, Taylor illuminates the images, reading a sign in a corner, showing how a city square evolved over decades, pointing out a sole child in a line-up of war veterans and speculating on why he was there. This is a book to dwell on and dream over. It brings historic Rhode Island back to us as few books do or could.
Cost: free
Suggested Audiences: Adult
Website: http://www.booksite.com/texis/scripts/bookletter/showlist.html?sid=6489&list=CNL14
E-mail: jchoiniere@provlib.org
Last Modified: October 26, 2007 at 11:30 AM
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